- Home
- Festivals & events
- Walter Frederick Osborne. The Guinness Portrait
Walter Frederick Osborne. The Guinness Portrait
- Family friendly
- Free to visit
Saturday, 23 March 2024 - Sunday, 1 September 2024
About this event
In early 2023, Walter Frederick Osborne’s full-length portrait of Mary Guinness with her Daughter Margaret was presented as a heritage gift to the National Gallery of Ireland. Awarded a bronze medal at the Paris International Exhibition of 1900, this piece was executed when Osborne was at the height of his powers as a portrait painter, featuring exemplary draughtsmanship and management of tone, and outstanding skills in the rendering of contrasting textures.
The gift included two related works – a drawing in pencil and a medium-sized sketch in oils – as well as the original silk gown that Mary Guinness wears in the portrait and is one of the key elements of the exhibition.
- Seamus Heaney: Listen Now AgainThings to see & doLiterary Dublin
- Zoological MuseumThings to see & doMuseums
- Ardgillan Castle and GardensThings to see & doCastles
- Irish Traditional Music ArchiveThings to see & doMuseums
- Photo Museum IrelandThings to see & doGalleries
- The Copper House GalleryThings to see & doGalleries
- Turning Heads: Rubens, Rembrandt and VermeerFestivals & eventsArt Exhibitions
Sat, 24 Feb - Sun, 26 May
National Gallery of Ireland
- Irish Famine ExhibitionFestivals & eventsArt Exhibitions
Tue, 2 Apr - Sat, 28 Sep
Stephen's Green Shopping Centre
- Yeats: The Life and Works of William Butler YeatsThings to see & doMuseums
- An Túr Gloine: Artists and the CollectiveFestivals & eventsArt Exhibitions
Sat, 30 Mar 2024 - Sun, 12 Jan 2025
National Gallery of Ireland